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Jazz trade John collins

Elizah Huge said:
This trade is so much better than the Sexton one I almost can’t believe the same front office made both deals.
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I’m wondering if the Jazz made a deal around the draft to give the Hornets Sexton for Nurkic in exchange for not trading the 4th pick to Washington. But it’s probably just tinfoil hat theory.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Honestly I think Giddey is the player I would target if we actually wanted to make some noise in RFA and make a team sweat. I really like his potential fit on the Jazz and he has shown fairly consistent improvement as a player year to year.
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Clayton JR
Bailey
Giddey
Lauri
Kessler

That's a fun core starting lineup.
 
Basketball Novice said:
This seems to be a move to open up cap space, but which RFAs or FAs are we going after? The notable RFAs are Kuminga, Giddey, Cam Thomas, and Grimes. I would want to go after Giddey.
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The goal is to eat a bad contract at the trade deadline to allow a team to dodge the tax or an apron.

The Mavs are almost certainly going to need to dump players to get out of the tax as they have the worst owners in the league so the move is going to be like to absorb Klay to get back some minor asset and then waive Klay.
 
HadAnEffectHere said:
The Jazz could have taken on expiring contracts each year instead of doing Collins and Clarkson. Then they would start the offseason with cap space they could then use for a star trade or to take bad salary.
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1. You can't just "take on expiring contracts every year." That would require signing players only to 1 year contracts and always trading expirings for other expirings, which is stupid.

2. "Take on bad salary" is not really much of a thing any more. You can do it, but it will mostly net you second rounders, and then your salary cap is shot to hell with bad long term salary that violates your first point.
 
framer said:
1. You can't just "take on expiring contracts every year." That would require signing players only to 1 year contracts and always trading expirings for other expirings, which is stupid.

2. "Take on bad salary" is not really much of a thing any more. You can do it, but it will mostly net you second rounders, and then your salary cap is shot to hell with bad long term salary that violates your first point.
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No your salary cap is not, lol. Teams have gotten a lot of seconds from taking on big expiring money.

Maybe you need to eat long-term money to get a first (like the Nets with MPJ), but that would have still been a better use of the cap space than whatever they were doing with their cap earlier.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
No... Salary dumps of one year contracts... then next year you have cap space. I chose both thank you.
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Probably the smartest move. Use this year to make some final decisions on our current pieces. Consolidate some of the young players you dont want moving forward and try to trade them for some sort of value, then try and sign a starting level player in UFA to complement your existing core.

But Giddey does really interest me and I like him better than some of the UFA names in 2026.
 
HadAnEffectHere said:
This depends heavily on

1. What we trade Lauri for during the season
2. Whether we extend Kessler before next offseason or wait until next offseason.

Those two factors cause the projected cap space to change by more than $70m. If we keep Lauri and extend Kessler at like 5/175, we will have not much space. If we trade Lauri for expirings and picks and do not extend Kessler, we'll have the most space of any team in the league.
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If the Jazz gave Walker 30 million they would still have about 40 million in capspace WITH Lauri on the roster. We are not trading Lauri for freaking expirings.
 
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